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2003: The kickoff game's popularity and success saw it move to ABC as part of the Monday Night Football package. In order for the kickoff game to fit into the schedule, ABC dropped the Monday Night Football game held in the last week of the NFL season. That game had become increasingly unpopular because it often lacked playoff significance, and ...
Here is everything you need to know about the history and tradition of the Thursday NFL Kickoff Game, which includes the Lions and Chiefs facing off on NBC in 2023.
The following is a list of games that have been given names that are widely used or recalled in reference to the game or as part of an NFL team's lore. This list does not include games named only after being an NFL / AFL Championship game or Super Bowl game unless they are referred to by a name besides their official yearly name (i.e. 28-3 for ...
The coverage team sets up at the receiving team’s 40-yard line, while the receiving team aligns nine players from the 30- to 35-yard line, aka the “restraining line.”
Each team's 17th game will match them up against an interconference opponent from a division that specified team was not going to play against before the addition of the 17th game and from the division schedule rotation from two seasons prior, with AFC teams hosting the extra games in odd-numbered years, while NFC teams host extra games in even ...
Just 22% of all NFL kickoffs were returned in the 2023 season, the lowest in history: teams are likely putting kickoffs in play during exhibition games to evaluate their coverage personnel.
The Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears was the Kickoff game instead, to celebrate the 100th season of the NFL, the 100th season of the Chicago Bears, and the NFL's oldest rivalry. Also, despite not hosting the kickoff game, the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots still hosted the first Sunday Night game of the season, with the ...
Kickoff returns are returning to the NFL. Team owners on Tuesday approved a new rule that will take what essentially had become “a dead play” and make it an integral part of the game again.